Ned Deily added the comment:
As far as I know, this is currently only an issue if you use the llvm-gcc-4.2
compiler on OS X to do a debug mode build. That compiler is no longer
maintained by Apple and is known to miscompile Python 3.3 builds. There are
checks in configure.ac for 3.3 to avoid
New submission from Chris Jerdonek:
The test_threading.ThreadingExceptionTests.test_recursion_limit test fails on
Mac OS X with the standard compilation command:
$ ./configure --with-pydebug && make -j2
Python 3.2.3+ (3.2:247d3e3c08ca, Sep 29 2012, 23:45:43)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. bu